The Smartest Transformers-Related Thing We've Ever Seen

Megatron goes on an existential rant about the dark void that is modern life.

Everybody knows that we are slowly turning into robots. Everybody knows that technology addiction is real, and that the line between our beings and our factory-built devices is ever-vanishing. Everybody knows that the most profitable mass entertainment is more aggressively mindless than at any time in human history (a rumored $100 million year for Grumpy Cat; a $1 billion year for Transformers: Age of Extinction). The latter of those two examples is routinely used as a scapegoat for all that is wrong with Hollywood. Every new installment of Transformers is an exhausting sprint of crashes and explosions. It's visually oversaturated content that started as a show for kids and is now served to adults. Transformers is not smart. But then this viral video emerges: a prop version of a talking Megatron berating a poor girl for trying to take a selfie. Now a menacing, talking hunk of metal is waxing poetic about the state of contemporary culture and the perils of social media. It's existential. It's brilliant. Watch it above.

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